ppl keep being mad online abt politics of protecting particular identities but i mean we have to do that because they're attacked
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Replying to @chaosprime @datawench
the fuckup was in adopting not politics of defending particular identities but of attacking particular identities
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Replying to @chaosprime @datawench
i.e. constructing white people, men, white men intersectionally lol, as rhetorical punching bags
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Replying to @chaosprime @datawench
like maybe just wait until their hegemonic position is actually dismantled before you do that, i'm just spitballing here
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Replying to @chaosprime @datawench
it is a lot to ask huge swathes of humanity not to be outraged by the outrageous =\
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if hegemony can only be beaten by being nice to hegemons then busting out surprise rage, we're doomed
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Replying to @endlessbats @datawench
shit, don't even be nice to the actual hegemons, just don't alienate on-side ppl who share their natal characteristics
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Replying to @chaosprime
I guess. It reeks of "not all men." People who reflexively deny an accurate hegenonic generalization aren't seeing themselves.
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Replying to @endlessbats
sure. but this is maybe a good criterion for who we allow into the role of ~progressive hero~, not for who even consider valid.
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Replying to @chaosprime
most people are balls of fucking anxiety who have all the skill at introspection of literally never having been taught it.
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we've been treating screaming at them until they go away as a fun game calling for a round of high-fives afterward.
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Replying to @chaosprime
what's the track record for being nice to them, though? versus making it unacceptable to act how they do?
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Replying to @endlessbats
idk, leaning on conversion by threat of social ostracism just lost every level of the US government to an overt fascist movement
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